Top story: There were a handful of posts and Tweets yesterday reporting that Mayor Elect Rahm Emanuel was spotted at Double Door for the Black Joe Lewis show Saturday night. I received a few texts the night of with the same information.

Rahm Emanuel said that he wants an all-girls charter school to add another campus in Chicago. The mayor-elect praised the Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago, while glossing over parts of its record.Emanuel attended a luncheon on Monday hosted by the charter school.

Those of us in the arts community should take care not to get too intoxicated by Rahm's going to the theater or to a dance concert, or even by his appointing a multi-member arts committee for his transition. Many if not most theater and dance companies are nonprofit organizations, and the mayo

The outcome of Tuesday’s 14 aldermanic runoffs in Chicago will obviously be a big deal for the residents of those wards. But the interest extends much further. Labor, business and political groups - along with politicians themselves - have been dumping cash into these contests for weeks.